The Jan Campert Prize (in Dutch: Jan Campert-prijs) is a Dutch literary prize established in 1948, which is awarded annually for works of poetry by the Jan Campert Foundation. The foundation was created in 1948 to honour
Jan Campert
Jan Remco Theodoor Campert ( Spijkenisse, 15 August 1902 – 12 January 1943) was a Dutch journalist, theater critic and writer who lived in Amsterdam. During the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II Campert was arrested for aidin ...
, considered by many to be an icon of the
Dutch resistance.
Winners
* 1948:
Jan Elburg
Joannes Gommert Elburg, writing as Jan "the man" G. Elburg (born Wemeldinge, 30 November 1919 – died Amsterdam, 13 August 1992) was a Dutch poet. He won numerous awards throughout his career, among them the 1976 Constantijn Huygens Prize.
Bi ...
, ''Klein t(er)reurspel''
* 1949:
Michel van der Plas
Michel may refer to:
* Michel (name), a given name or surname of French origin (and list of people with the name)
* Míchel (nickname), a nickname (a list of people with the nickname, mainly Spanish footballers)
* Míchel (footballer, born 1963), ...
, ''Going my way''
* 1950:
Hans Lodeizen
Hans Lodeizen (20 July 1924 – 26 July 1950), born Johannes August Frederik Lodeizen, was a Dutch poet. He was the author of one book of poems (''The Wallpaper Within'', 1949) and a quantity of miscellaneous work. Despite his short life and mod ...
, '' Het innerlijke behang'' (postuum)
* 1951:
Bert Voeten, ''Met het oog op morgen''
* 1952:
Maria Dermoût
Maria Dermoût (15 June 1888 – 27 June 1962) was an Indo-European novelist, considered one of the greats of Dutch literature and as such an important proponent of Dutch Indies literature. In December 1958 ''Time'' magazine praised the tr ...
, ''Nog pas gisteren''
* 1953:
Albert Besnard
Paul-Albert Besnard (2 June 1849 – 4 December 1934) was a French painter and printmaker.
Biography
Besnard was born in Paris and studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, studied with Jean Bremond and was influenced by Alexandre Cabanel. He wo ...
, ''Doem en dorst''
* 1954:
Nes Tergast, ''Werelden'' (geweigerd)
* 1955: not awarded
* 1956:
Remco Campert
Remco Campert (28 July 1929 – 4 July 2022) was a Dutch author, poet and columnist.
Early years
Remco Wouter Campert was born in The Hague, son of writer and poet Jan Campert, author of the poem ''De achttien dooden'', and actress Joekie Bro ...
, ''Met man en muis'' en ''Het huis waar ik woonde''
* 1957: not awarded
* 1958: not awarded
* 1959:
Sybren Polet
Sybe Minnema (19 June 1924 – 19 July 2015), known by his pen name Sybren Polet, was a Dutch prose writer and poet. He won numerous awards, among them the 2003 Constantijn Huygens Prize.
Born in Kampen, he worked as a teacher in Zwolle. ...
, ''Geboorte-stad''
* 1960: not awarded
* 1961:
Ellen Warmond, ''Warmte, een woonplaats''
* 1962:
Gerrit Kouwenaar
Gerrit Kouwenaar (9 August 1923 – 4 September 2014) was a Dutch journalist, translator, poet and prose writer.
Biography
Kouwenaar was born in Amsterdam, North Holland. In the early 1940s, during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, he w ...
, ''De stem op de 3e etage''
* 1963:
Ed. Hoornik, ''De vis/In den vreemde''
* 1964:
Louis Th. Lehmann Louis may refer to:
* Louis (coin)
* Louis (given name), origin and several individuals with this name
* Louis (surname)
* Louis (singer), Serbian singer
* HMS ''Louis'', two ships of the Royal Navy
See also
Derived or associated terms
* Lewis (d ...
, ''Who's Who in Whatland''
* 1965:
Willem Hussem
Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, Gui ...
, ''Schaduw van de hand''
* 1966:
Hanny Michaelis
Hanny Michaelis (19 December 1922 – 11 June 2007) was a Dutch poet.
The daughter of Alfred Michaelis and Gonda Sara Swaab, both Jewish, she was born in Amsterdam.
Her parents were sent to Sobibór in 1943 and never returned. She lived in ...
, ''Onvoorzien''
* 1967:
Jozef Eykmans, ''Zonder dansmeester''
* 1968:
Hans Vlek
Hans may refer to:
__NOTOC__ People
* Hans (name), a masculine given name
* Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician
** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans
** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi ...
, ''Een warm hemd voor de winter''
* 1969:
Rutger Kopland, ''Alles op de fiets''
* 1970:
Hans Andreus, ''Natuurgedichten en andere''
* 1971:
Paul Snoek, ''Gedichten''
* 1972:
Albert Bontridder, ''Zelfverbranding''
* 1973:
Hans van den Waarsenburg
Hans may refer to:
__NOTOC__ People
* Hans (name), a masculine given name
* Hans Raj Hans, Indian singer and politician
** Navraj Hans, Indian singer, actor, entrepreneur, cricket player and performer, son of Hans Raj Hans
** Yuvraj Hans, Punjabi a ...
, ''De vergrijzing''
* 1974:
Hugues C. Pernath
Hugues C. Pernath (pseudonym of Hugo Wouters, 15 August 1931 in Borgerhout – 4 June 1975 in Borgerhout) was a Belgian writer. Together with Paul Snoek, he founded the avant garde magazine ''Gard Sivik'', and he was a member of the ''Pink Poets ...
, ''Mijn tegenstem''
* 1975:
Eddy van Vliet, ''Het grote verdriet''
* 1976:
Kees Buddingh', ''Het houdt op met zachtjes regenen''
* 1977:
Hans Faverey
Hans Antonius Faverey (14 September 1933, in Paramaribo – 8 July 1990, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch poet of Surinam descent. Besides being a poet, he was a lecturer at the psychology department of the Universiteit Leiden.
Biography
Faverey was bo ...
, ''Chrysanten, roeiers''
* 1978:
Cees Nooteboom
Cees Nooteboom (; born 31 July 1933) is a Dutch novelist, poet and journalist. After the attention received by his novel ''Rituelen'' (''Rituals'', 1980), which received the Pegasus Prize, it was the first of his novels to be translated into an ...
, ''Open als een schelp - dicht als een steen''
* 1979:
Roland Jooris, ''Gedichten 1958-78''
* 1980:
Ed Leeflang, ''De hazen en andere gedichten''
* 1981:
Judith Herzberg, ''Botshol''
* 1982:
Willem van Toorn
Willem () is a Dutch and West FrisianRienk de Haan, ''Fryske Foarnammen'', Leeuwarden, 2002 (Friese Pers Boekerij), , p. 158. masculine given name. The name is Germanic, and can be seen as the Dutch equivalent of the name William in English, G ...
, ''Het landleven''
* 1983:
Robert Anker
Rengert Robert Anker (26 April 1946 – 20 January 2017) was a Dutch writer. In 1993 he won the Ferdinand Bordewijk Prijs for his novel '' De terugkeer van kapitein Rob'', and in 2002 the Libris Prize
The Libris Literature Award or Libris Pri ...
, ''Van het balkon''
* 1984:
Ad Zuiderent, ''Natuurlijk evenwicht''
* 1985:
Kees Ouwens
Cornelis Johannes "Kees" Ouwens (27 June 1944 in Zeist – 24 August 2004 in Heemstede) was a Dutch novelist and poet. He won numerous awards throughout his career, among them the 2002 Constantijn Huygens Prize.
ReferencesProfileat the Digi ...
, ''Klem''
* 1986:
Herman de Coninck, ''De hectaren van het geheugen''
* 1987:
Tom van Deel, ''Achter de waterval''
* 1988:
H.H. ter Balkt, ''Aardes deuren''
* 1989:
Miriam van Hee
Miriam ( he, מִרְיָם ''Mīryām'', lit. 'Rebellion') is described in the Hebrew Bible as the daughter of Amram and Jochebed, and the older sister of Moses and Aaron. She was a prophetess and first appears in the Book of Exodus.
The Torah ...
, ''Winterhard''
* 1990:
Jan Kuijper, ''Tomben''
* 1991:
Leonard Nolens, ''Liefdes verklaringen''
* 1992:
Willem Jan Otten
Willem Jan Otten (born 4 October 1951) is a Dutch prose writer, playwright and poet, who in 2014 won the P. C. Hooft Award for lifetime literary achievement.
Biography
Otten was born in Amsterdam as the son of the musicians Marijke Ferguson and ...
, ''Paviljoenen''
* 1993:
Toon Tellegen, ''Een dansschool''
* 1994:
Lloyd Haft, ''Atlantis''
* 1995:
Eva Gerlach
Eva Gerlach (born April 9, 1948) is a Dutch poet. She also writes under the name Margaret Dijkstra.
Biography
She was born in Amsterdam. In 1979, she published her first collection of poetry ''Verder geen leed'' (No Further Distress) in 1979. It ...
, ''Wat zoekraakt''
* 1996:
Huub Beurskens Huub is a given name. Notable people with the name include:
*Huub Bals (1937–1988), the first director and creator of the International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR)
*Huub Bertens (born 1960), Dutch bridge player from Tilburg, Netherlands
*Huub ...
, ''Iets zo eenvoudigs''
* 1997:
Elma van Haren
Elma van Haren (born 29 August 1954) is a Dutch poet.
Career
In 1988, she made her debut as poet with ''Reis naar het welkom geheten''. She won the very first C. Buddingh'-prijs for this collection of poems. She went on to publish various p ...
, ''Grondstewardess''
* 1998:
Tonnus Oosterhoff
Tonnus Oosterhoff (Leiden, 18 March 1953) is a Dutch poet and writer.
Biography
Born in Leiden, Tonnus Oosterhoff spent most of life in the Dutch province of Groningen. He studied Dutch literature and linguistics at the University of Groningen. ...
, ''Robuuste tongwerken, een stralend plenum''
* 1999:
Peter van Lier, ''Gegroet o...''
* 2000:
K. Michel, ''Waterstudies''
* 2001:
Arjen Duinker
Arjen (also spelled as Arjan) is a given name, a variant of the Dutch/ Finnish name Adrian. Arjen (sometimes also Ariën) is derived from the Latin name Adrianus.
The name Adrianus means "native of, from Adria", a place near Venice. Adria is asso ...
, ''De geschiedenis van een opsomming''
* 2002:
Menno Wigman, ''Zwart als kaviaar''
* 2003:
Jan Eijkelboom
Jan, JaN or JAN may refer to:
Acronyms
* Jackson, Mississippi (Amtrak station), US, Amtrak station code JAN
* Jackson-Evers International Airport, Mississippi, US, IATA code
* Jabhat al-Nusra (JaN), a Syrian militant group
* Japanese Article Numb ...
, ''Heden voelen mijn voeten zich goed''
* 2004:
Mustafa Stitou
Mustafa ( ar, مصطفى
, Muṣṭafā) is one of the names of Prophet Muhammad, and the name means "chosen, selected, appointed, preferred", used as an Arabic given name and surname. Mustafa is a common name in the Muslim world.
Given name Mou ...
, ''Varkensroze ansichten''
* 2005:
Nachoem Wijnberg, ''Eerst dit dan dat''
* 2006:
, ''Alles is nieuw''
* 2007:
Dirk van Bastelaere, ''De voorbode van iets groots''
* 2008:
Peter Verhelst, ''Nieuwe Sterrenbeelden''
* 2009:
Alfred Schaffer
Alfred may refer to:
Arts and entertainment
*''Alfred J. Kwak'', Dutch-German-Japanese anime television series
* ''Alfred'' (Arne opera), a 1740 masque by Thomas Arne
* ''Alfred'' (Dvořák), an 1870 opera by Antonín Dvořák
*"Alfred (Interlu ...
, ''Kooi''
* 2010:
Hélène Gelèns, ''zet af en zweef''
* 2011:
Erik Spinoy, ''Dode kamer''
* 2012 -
Wouter Godijn, ''Hoe H.H. de wereld redde''
* 2013 -
Micha Hamel, ''Bewegend doel''
* 2014 -
Piet Gerbrandy, ''Vlinderslag''
* 2015 -
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer (born 17 January 1968) is a Dutch poet, novelist, polemicist and classical scholar. He was born in Rijswijk, Netherlands, and studied, lived and worked in Leiden, and he moved permanently to Genoa, Italy, in 2008.
Biogra ...
, ''Idyllen''
* 2016 -
Jan Baeke, ''Seizoensroddel''
* 2017 -
Marije Langelaar Marije is a given name. Notable people with this name include:
* Marije van Hunenstijn (born 1995), Dutch sprinter
* Marije Joling (born 1987), Dutch female allround speed skater
* Marije Tolman (born 1976), Dutch illustrator of children's litera ...
, ''Vonkt''
* 2018 -
Annemarie Estor, ''Niemandslandnacht''
* 2019 -
Paul Demets, ''De Klaverknoop''
* 2020 -
Maud Vanhauwaert, ''Het stad in mij''
* 2021 -
Mischa Andriessen
Mischa is a diminutive form of the name Mikhail.
Men
* Mischa Auer (1905–1967), Russian actor born Mikhail Semyonovich Unskovsky
* Mikhail Mischa Bakaleinikoff (1890–1960), Russian-born musical director, Hollywood film composer and conduc ...
, ''Het drogsyndicaat''
* 2022 -
Dominique De Groen, ''Slangen''
Source:''
Jan Campert Stichting
External links
*{{cite web , url=http://www.jancampertstichting.nl/ , title=Jan Campert-stichting , language=nl
References
Dutch poetry awards